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Freehand is an entirely new way to creatively collaborate in InVision. Wireframing, planning, design presentations, and feedback—do it all with Freehand.

I believe most of us have already heard about the word “crazy 8's”. If you are a designer in the term of software development, you might be familiar with it. Even if you haven’t heard about it, now I’m assuming that you hear it.

Over the past few years, EightShapes has embedded sketching into workflow to quickly generate ideas. Whether with our clients using formal scenarios, or internally to work through ideas ad-hoc, sketching is now part of our DNA, and reinforces our core value of “show, don’t tell.”

I’ve been facilitating design studios with collocated teams for years. Many, including me, have covered the benefits of collaboratively sketching new ideas and concepts with a cross-functional team. Recently though, I was tasked with bringing this exercise to a distributed team.

Last week, Figma Chicago held our 2nd Meetup, titled “Optimizing for Collaboration in Figma”. This is a recap of the event.

Making long-distance collaboration a team sport.

Every Friday afternoon, the Product Experience team at Foursquare gets together and ends the week with a creative exercise. The PX team is a big mash-up of visual designers, UX, copy, research, and product operations, and it’s a lot of people’s favorite meeting of the week.

In this episode of the Design Better Podcast, Aarron and Eli talk with Dan and Brad about reducing friction between these two very different disciplines. They explore a few misconceptions around agile methodology, the risks of the creative technologist role, and the latest in design systems thinking. This is a conversation you don’t want to miss.

Nathan Curtis has written a lot about design systems.

Nathan Curtis looks at how we can avoid the 'Overlords' those who may have previously 'owned' the design system to a federated approach, allowing consistency but also allowing the design system to scale with multiple contributors.

Open Source Guides are a collection of resources for individuals, communities, and companies who want to learn how to run and contribute to an open source project.

Mandy Brown, Editorially’s CEO, looks at remote work culture from a positive angle. Through interviews with other remote workers and mining her own experiences, Brown offers up some observations about what makes for a good remote culture, and why it’s likely here to stay.

A Coggle Diagram about Already exists (Does it fulfill all requirements?) and Does not already exist

Design principles are a valuable tool for any team that works together towards a shared outcome. Written well, design principles can create alignment, speed up decision-making, and increase the quality of the team’s output. Lately, I’ve worked with two of my teams to write design principles.

My parents are retired. They continue to try to pay for meals. I don’t want them to. So we often end up in a competition to see who can pay first. In this case, I knew I had an advantage. My card details were already stored in the browser.

A set of posters the GOV.UK team put together to communicate their design principles.

Step-by-step instructions for tracking your team's health, and new ways of working ("plays") that build your Get $#!τ Done™ muscle. Use the plays on their own, or in concert with Atlassian tools.

16 cards describing different user research activities and explains when and how to use it effectively.

Hex Naw is a tool that helps designers and developers test entire color systems for contrast and accessibility. Plug in your palette or color system and let Hex Naw do the rest.

SF Symbols introduces a comprehensive library of vector-based symbols that you can incorporate into your app to simplify the layout of user interface elements through automatic alignment with surrounding text, and support for multiple weights and sizes. Learn how easy it is to adapt to different screen sizes and layouts, and improve the accessibility and localizability of your app. Get details on how to create new symbols for your specific needs that perfectly match the visual style of SF Symbols.